This Sunday we drove to Healdsburg, dog in tow. It was spectacularly sunny and warm, the mustard was in bloom, and our spirits were high. It...

I think it's time for some posts that are not food-related (though it tends to weasel it's way in) and this is what I'm thinki...

It's been a long time since I've blogged about a restaurant, and that's not to imply that I haven't had some great meals as ...

Oh my. What can I say? I don't have much by way of an excuse. Life, I guess. A pretty wonderful one at that. I realize it's been abo...

Due to life, I've been absent from posting. I confess, I've hardly cooked at all lately, and when I have, it's been a bit of a d...

I have a serious love of hotel rooms. Sparkling clean, crisp white sheets, giant beds, mini-toiletries, mountains of pillows, and of course,...

I always feel a sense of pride when I come out of the voting booth and collect my "I Voted" sticker. I leave the polling place fee...

The rain's been pouring down outside for the past two days. The wind's picked up outside, but inside I've got some homemade chic...

Lately, if feels a bit as if I'm losing my mind. I forget where my car is parked on a regular basis, I'm constantly leaving my walle...

Lately I've been trying to make a concentrated effort to schedule things into my day aside from work; namely, cooking and having some so...

I kept the sickness at bay for a good couple of days, enough so that I could enjoy beer with friends, the farmer's market and the long a...

Just as I was beginning to accept the fact that it was fall, and that the Bay Area had completely skipped summer...the heat wave came. You w...

Lately, my perception of time feels exactly like the summer we've had here in the Bay Area this year: non-existent. I start to work arou...

I've been shamefully absent in blogging lately, and can't provide much by way of an excuse. Other than the fact that I've been e...

Maybe it's all the Mad Men I've been watching lately, or maybe it's the fact that since I left the office life, I also left the ...

When August rolls around I only crave tomatoes. It seems they've been later than ever in coming around this year. But they're finall...

It was naive of me to think I'd have more time to cook now that I'm working from home. Nope. Definitely not the case. The whole work...

After 3 days (roughly 30 hours) of intensive training in a Westin hotel just outside of Washington DC with my 20 fellow trainees, we were c...

I spent my freshman year of college at a small liberal arts school smack in the middle of Boston. My dorm was at the corner of Boylston and...

This is a case of good intentions leading to a likely ill-advised shade of red lipstick. Leading Lady Red, it's called. In the almost tw...